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Ok AquariumAdvicers I come to you once again for some... aquarium advice... On my 50 gallon breeder tank I have been using AquaClear 70 filters and overall I really enjoy them. They are nice and quiet and fairly easy to use. However I have a problem in this tank that is making the AC70s die...

I am looking for 4 true Siamese Algae Eaters.

I was just playing around online today and decided to poke at one of those aquarium stocking level calculators and based on what it told me it said that I have about twice the stock that my filtration will support, I don't think that's the case but wanted to throw it out there to get feed back...

I stumbled across a series of videos on youtube talking about setting up a nano lagoon on the cheap. Basically they are just using a 10 gallon aquarium, HOB filter, 5 pounds of aragonite and some larger aragonite rocks to form the reef. It looks like the entire thing could be setup for under 100...

I have a 40 long aquarium that I will be converting into brackish. I put some mollies in there today and since I had heard that mollies like water current I put in the PetCo powerhead I had picked up on the clearance table a little while back. I think the box said that it pumped 200gph. I really...

I'm working on a new tank that I plan to transition to brackish, it will contain columbian sharks and probably mollies. Having never run a brackish tank before I'm looking for any advice you all can offer. The tank is a 40 gallon long which I know is too small for the Columbians but they will...

So I'm setting up a tank right now which is intended to have alot of swimming room for bottom dwellers so I'm trying to minimize how much stuff I put on the bottom of the tank. That said, I'd like to get some higher level fish to make use of the upper layers of the tank but I'd want them to have...

Trying to save myself some money I picked up a 40 gallon long aquarium on craigslist. I saw it was holding water and everything looked OK but when I got it home I noticed that the bottom trim is a bit cracked. One of the corners is actually missing some of the bottom support. Is this thing junk...

So it's time for my columbian sharks to move to their bigger home and start making their way "up the river". I'm looking for suggestions on how to best slowly increase their salinity. If I'm doing regular changes and adding in back say 20 gallons of water on a change should I add just a couple...

A while back I picked up some Columbian Sharks AKA Black Fin Shark. They are currently in my 50 gallon breeder community tank. Now the first reaction of course is, they need a much larger tank than that and that is exactly what I'm here to ask about. When dealing with something like these guys...

For Valentine's Day my wife got me one of these ThinkGeek :: USB Fishquarium . The thing only holds like 1.5 quarts of water which is about a third of a gallon. I'm trying not to send it back but can anything even live in that little water? I'm thinking maybe cherry shrimp? I can't imagine any...

Short Version - Could Cherry Shrimp take down a healthy danio? Long version - Yesterday I added 4 new danios to my tank. I watched them for a few minutes and saw something weird. One of them swam near the algae patch where the Cherry Shrimp seem to hang out and when he got too close one of the...

So here's my dilemma. I have a community that I fear is close to or already overstocked, I also have a lone danio in there that is all by himself. So I'm trying to figure out if I should leave him in there alone even though he's a schooling fish. The other option is I pick up 3 or 4 more danio...

I'm working on a plan to make a 20 gallon aquarium for fiddler crabs that will essentially exist of 2 levels. the ground level will be about an inch of sand covered by 2-3" of brackish water. There will then be some sort of ramp that will allow the crabs to get up on to a raised sandbox that...

I have a 30 gallon tank that has 3 convict cichlids in it. For the past 1.5-2 months one of them has been having trouble swimming. She lays on her side on the bottom and when she tries to get to the top she doesn't seem to have the strength to make it up that high and instead falls back down. To...

So I got into keeping fish last summer and for the most part I really enjoy it but I seem to have terrible luck keeping my fish alive. I haven't really had a death in a few months now but over the past 2 weeks I've lost 2 danios and I have a gold dojo that is on it's way out. The first danio...

Recently I setup a double tank in our basement office. It's one of those iron stands with a 30gallon high on the top and a 20 gallon on the bottom. The problem I'm running into though is that I can't get my syphon to start on the lower tank. I have a syphon with a hand pump for getting it...

In my community tank I have a pretty active cherry shrimp colony and I'm thinking I'd like to get rid of some and trade them in at the LFS. The problem is they're fast, and I've given them too many places to hide. Anyone have any ideas on a good way to trap/catch the little buggers?

I had a pretty bad infestation of snails of pretty much every variety. Mystery, pond, trumpet. Now that I've got my yoyo loaches and they're doing their thing to the snail population I have quite a collection of empty snail shells in the tank. I personally like the way the shells look in the...

Right now I have a 20 gallon tank that I rescued from the office that is completely over stocked. I'm going to be splitting up the fish by getting a 30 gallon x-high and putting both tanks on the same stand. The 20 gallon tank has an aquaclear 30 that I put on it and just yeseterday I got the...

Was at petco yesterday and they had these frozen fish gum drops by San Fransisco Bay. They're supposed to be a frozen fish food that contains bloodworms and such. I've been looking to expand my fishes diets and I'm just wondering if anyone has any experience with these things before I actually...

So I have an orange zebra danio that has a weird spine thing going on that I'm curious about. I've found lots of info online about bent spines but it all seems to be about a hump on the back type bend. This guy has more of a horizontal bend. What I mean by that is that if you were to look...

I'm having an issue where my swordtails are breeding like mad. Even though I lost the original male the babies have started having their own babies now. I've been waiting till the first batch grew up so I could sex them and sell them off to the LFS but since then there's been another batch and...

So I've been trying to think of a way to get a tank into my rather small living room and I think I've finally come up with something and I just wanted to get some feedback on it. Basically what I'm thinking is that I build a good solid bench that has enough room inside it to hold a 55 gallon...

So here's the situation, at work there is a 20 gallon fish tank that is overcrowded and not very well cared for. I'm going to be taking it home to rescue the fish. At some point in the near future I will be setting up probably a 50 gallon tank or so to move them all into. Now the question is...